Stewart Friesen will return to the NASCAR Truck Series this upcoming season after being injured in a wreck back in July. The 42-year-old driver spoke with SiriusXM NASCAR Radio on Thursday, announcing he will drive the No. 52 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro for Halmar Friesen Racing when the season begins in February. <\/p>\n
While competing in a Super DIRTcar Series event at Autodrome Drummond in Drummondville, Quebec, in July, Stewart Friesen was in an accident that left him with an open-book pelvis fracture and a fractured leg. It led to him missing the last nine Truck Series races of the 2025 season. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going very well,\u201d Friesen said when asked about the recovery process after the wreck, per Joseph Srigley of <\/a>Sports Illustrated<\/a>. \u201cThe last month I\u2019ve been making some leaps and bounds; no more crutches, no more canes, I\u2019m walking pretty normal and trying to work out as much as I can, still doing a lot of physical therapy and anticipating a return at Daytona in just over a month.\u201d<\/p>\n Stewart Friesen feels \u2018great\u2019 heading into the 2026 season<\/p>\n Friesen was set to compete in the playoffs after winning the race at Michigan International Speedway in June. Kaden Honeycutt replaced Friesen, and he reached the Championship 4 at Phoenix Raceway. Friesen looks to build on what the No. 52 team did at the end of the 2025 season. <\/p>\n \u201cI feel great,\u201d Friesen continued. \u201cI\u2019ve done some sim over at [Toyota Racing Development] in Salisbury a few times, had another session yesterday morning that went really well, and I\u2019m really looking forward to getting back into action and getting back to normal and getting rolling here to start the season.\u201d<\/p>\n Friesen has been competing in the Truck Series full-time for Halmar Friesen Racing since 2017. In his 200 Truck Series races, Stewart Friesen has won four races and finished in the top-10 91 times. <\/p>\n